In Saint-Paul-en-Forêt in the Var, one of the two departments placed in vigil red rain-flood, a person is missing Sunday night, "potentially carried in a ford" with his vehicle according to the prefecture. "But the current conditions make research very difficult," say the firefighters.

A person is missing in the Var Sunday night, taken in a vehicle that allegedly tried to cross a ford, we learned from firefighters and the prefecture, while the department is still on red alert rain-flood, like the Alpes-Maritimes. "The vehicle was potentially swept into a ford on the town of Saint-Paul-en-Forêt, but the current conditions make the research very difficult," said the firefighters to AFP, specifying wait for a helicopter to illuminate the site.

210 interventions by firefighters

If the Var has been on red alert since Sunday morning, struck by a second Mediterranean episode after the one that caused the death of six people last weekend in the department, the situation worsened Sunday late afternoon with increased precipitation. At 9:30 pm, according to the last point made with firefighters, 210 interventions took place during the day and a total of 76 people were secured, with four victims in "relative urgency". Many interventions and recognitions were still in progress.

Mandelieu, "disaster town"

Relief was particularly involved Fréjus, where a district was invaded by water, and Puget-sur-Argens and Roquebrune-sur-Argens, two municipalities already hit hard last weekend. The Alpes-Maritimes were also hard hit on Sunday night, with several districts flooded in Mandelieu-la-Napoule and Cannes. In Mandelieu, "the city is totally devastated" affirmed the general manager of the city, David Konopnicki, quoted by the daily Var Matin, fearing "a 3rd very intense wave of precipitations" towards 22:00. "The floods will be sudden and numerous, the only emergency at this stage is to save lives," said the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, on Twitter, according to which "there will be more individuals affected than the Last weekend".

A new rainy-stormy event is gaining strength and arriving at the metropolitan area. It would be at least 155mm / h, an exceptional intensity. The floods will be sudden and numerous. The only urgency at this stage is to protect lives.

- David Lisnard (@davidlisnard) December 1, 2019

The Prefecture of Alpes-Maritimes has already announced Sunday night the closure of all schools in Cannes, Mandelieu and Pegomas, a town hit by a mudslide. In the face of heavy rainfall in the area, the A8 motorway was closed in the early evening, in both directions, between the interchanges of Nice Saint-Isidore and Cannet-des-Maures.